Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

she died within two hours He placed
her body in box and was about to bury
her when discovered by nelghbors.
Harper fed and has not yet been capt
ured.
Mrs. MARY MCAvoY died in Lancas ter,
Pa. on the night of the 4th, at the great age
of one hundred and three years. She was
a native of Ireland, and came to this coun-
try in the early par: of the present cent
ury. She remem bered distinctly the
stirring scenes of the Irish revolution of
1928.
A MAN named Hayes, of Hagerstown,
Nd, killed burglar who had broken into
his store on the night of the 5th.
GREAT ALARM exists in Hayti over the
recent threats from England.
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, of Toronto, is out
in letter Gorbidding extravaganza at
Catholic funerals hereafter
TUESDAY, she 9Th being the thirtieth an
niversary OF the birth of Prince Alexan-
der of Battenberg, every town in Bull
garia and every branch of the Patriotic
League sent congratulations to him.
GENERAL MCNULTA, the new receiver of
the Wabash, took official charge of the
road on the 9th.
GENERAL ORDwAF has made an explana-
ton about the negro militia companies
and tho National drill to the San Antonio
Rifles.
A BILL was passed by the Pennsylvania
Senate on the 9th providing that the pun
lshrent for murder in the first degree
may be death by the use Of electricity.
BIDS have been invited by the Secretary
of the Navy for the construction of three
new cruisers and two new gunboats.
LORD LANsnowNE's tenants refuse the
new terms OF rent settlement, and evic-
tons are ordered to proceed.
THE will of Mary B. Pelton, the sister of
the late Samuel j. Tilden, was admitted
to probate on the 9th. The testatriX be-
queaths all her property to her grand
daughter, Laura A Pelton, wife of VIM.
A. Hazard.
FIRE in the barracks at Aldershot, En-
gland, on the 9th, destroyed fully seven
eighths of the buildings and other proper
ty, and so seriously damaged what re-
mains of them unconsumed as to render
them useless.
FORESTER, who Is supposed to be the
finest St. Bernard dog in the world has
just been imported by Dr. Foster, of New
York He cost 5000 in the Turin mount
aims, and is the son of st. Elmo, famous
st. Bernard, well known to dog fanciers
all over the mountains.
AN extensive fire occurred on the 9th in
the Swiss village of Buchol in the canton
of Saint Gall. Sixty houses We're burned,
NEWS from Cape Breton is that there
are slight hopes that the steamer Ea gle
and her $50 Seamen are not lost.
AT the Windsor Hotel, New York, on
the 9th, Sir William Owen Lanyon, K. c.
NJ, G. c. b., died of cancer of the jaw.
Deceased was forty-four years old, was
born in Ireland, and had served in wars
of England with distinction. In the sec
ond Soudan campa ign he contracted the
n Of ha Al 10 hal
the winter in Nassau and Florida, and
reached New York March 81.
THE Chesapeake Nail Works at Harris
burg, Pa, employing about 20O men, and
the Lochiel and the Paxton furnace have
ceased operations until the railroad and
transportation companies reach some con-
clusion regarding freight rates. The mill
owners say they can not continue bust
ness under the Interstate act as inter-
preted now. Several hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
THE steamer Carmonia, with all on
board, is given up as lost.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
adjourned on the 7th for week.
A'TERRIBLE landslide occurred at Mon tie
Carlo on the 7th as sequel to the late
earthquakes in the Riviera.
AN mportant meeting of the Cabinet
was held on the 7th in which our relations
with Great Britain were discussed.
IT is thought that Secretary Fairchild is
favorable to Architect McGrath of st.
Louis for Supervising Architect of the
Treasury.
A GERMAN has been jailed at Brooklyn
in connection with the Railway mystery.
He surrendered and claimed to have
murdered the girl. He may be a crank.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, has been made a Ma
tional bank reserve city.
BENTON j. HALL, of Iowa, has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of Patents, vice
Montgomery, resigned.
IN the Illinois Legislature, on the 7th,
during the debate on conspiracy bill,
quite q breeze was occasioned by Mr..
Dixon severely scoring Mr.. Merritt for
having been member of the Knights of
the Golden Circle during the war.
COMMODORE CHARLES GREEN, U. s. N,
retired, died suddenly at Providence, r.
l., on the 18th, aged seventy-three years.
THE Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe,
Va, was sold ON the 18th for $751;, 800. 1t
was bought by Mrs. Ph9bus.
A WHALE was captured at East Hamp-
ton, L. l., on the 18th, and killed. Its body
was towed ashore by some fishermen.
THE Comptroller of the Currency on the
18th declared a fourth dividend for the
creditors of the Lancaster National Bank
of Clinton, Mass. The dividend is for
twenty per cent and makes seventy per
cent. paid.
MEMBERS of the Michigan Legislature
are out of sorts because railroad COM
pany has called in their deadhead passes.
NAVAL officers are much pleased with
the result of an attempt made at Thur
low, Pa, to cast a steel stem for the new
cruiser Baltimore, now building at Phila-
delphia The piece weighed Is, 100 pounds,
and was cast without defect.
THE total amount contributed during the
past year for the erection of q monument
to the late Vice-President Hendricks is
81, 900. The sum required to erect the
monument is $4,000, and it is thought it
can be'raised during the next year.
THE Cunard Line steamer Pavonia, Cap
tain Mckay, which sailed from Queens
town on the 9th for Boston, collided with
and sunk fishing smack off Cape Clear
Two of the occupants of the smack were
drowned.
Z. II. RAFFIN, who was shot by ex-Min-
lister Langston's son Frank, at Peters
burg, Va, died of his wounds on the night
of the 9th. Langston will be tried for
murder in the first degree, which is in
Virginia a hanging matter.
GENERAL THos. W. CONWAY, secretary
OF the State Temperance League of New
York, and organizer of the Temperance
Insurance Association of New York, died
suddenly on the night of the 9th He was
forty-eight years old
WHILE at work on a building ON Broad
way, New York, on the 18th, two painters.
Peter Murray and Daniel Alfred, were
killed by the falling of a scaffold. They
fell from the seventh to the frst fiooc, and
their bodies were literally shattered, their
arms, legs, ribs and heads being broken.
THE Knights of Labor and Federation OF
MiuarS of RnnRs vlvania To